The Mighty Creatives are committed to preserving your privacy. This policy explains how we use and protect any personal information that we collect about you.
By visiting our website (www.themightycreatives.com), making a purchase or donation, or registering your details with us for any reason, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
This section outlines how we may collect, process and store information about you.
You may give us information about yourself by filling in a form on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, email, post or otherwise.
This includes information you provide when you register for our email lists, subscribe to our membership schemes, enter a competition, make a donation or register your interest in one of our training workshops, programmes or events. It also includes information you provide when making a purchase on our website (www.themightycreatives.com).
We may also collect information from you through surveys or sign-up forms on third- party websites surveymonkey.com and mailchimp.com.
The Mighty Creatives does not control the information you provide to our partners when booking tickets for our touring performances and events.
We may collect information about your interests to help us inform the service we offer to you.
We may sometimes collect photography or video footage of individuals involved in our courses, programmes and projects. Where this involves large groups, you will be notified of this happening and given the opportunity not to be included. Where the filming or photography involves small groups or individuals, we will seek your consent to use these. You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting info@themightycreatives.com. Once consent is withdrawn, we will not use the relevant images or footage again, but it will not normally be possible to recall documents or marketing materials in which the image has already appeared.
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
• Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
• Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse- overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our office number.
Information we receive from other sources
You may agree to give us information about yourself through third parties such as our partner venues, advertising partners or cultural networks. You will always have given permission before your personal data is shared with us.
We also collect information from public sources, and we may receive anonymised statistical information about our audiences from our partners and cultural networks.
Cookies
Cookies are small amounts of information which we may store on your computer when you visit our websites.
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, see our Cookie policy.
Sensitive personal data
We may collect sensitive personal information about you including information about your racial or ethnic origin, your religious or other beliefs, trade union memberships you are a part of and offences or alleged offences committed by you. Such Sensitive Personal Data shall only be collected after having obtained your explicit consent to do so or where it is necessary to do so to comply with legal requirements including for employment law purposes.
Some sensitive data is requested in our customer surveys but is analysed anonymously and is not obligatory to provide.
How will we use your information
unsubscribe link on our marketing emails. You can also unsubscribe or challenge
the use of your information by emailing us at info@themightycraetives.com
We will retain your information for a period of 5 years or as long as the law requires. We may also keep some information about you indefinitely for archiving purposes, if you give us permission to do so.
Young People
If you are under the age of 18 you must seek permission from your parent or carer before registering any personal information with The Mighty Creatives.
We may collect personal information about individuals under 18 who take part in our courses, programmes and events, for the purpose of running these activities.
We may also collect personal information such as imagery and testimonials for the purpose of promoting our programmes and projects. In this instance we will always ask for consent to use this information from the individual (if they are 18 or over) or their parent or carer (if they are under 18).
We always treat people under the age of 18 in line with our Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy [link]
Fundraising
Like most charitable organisations operating in the arts and cultural sector, The Mighty Creatives needs to raise funds beyond our commercial and core funding revenue streams to survive. This can be through donations from individuals, companies or trusts and foundations. We do this by adhering to the same practice of privacy applied across all the charities traded activities.
To ensure our contact with individuals, companies and trusts and foundations is in line with our interests as an organisation, we conduct surface level research and analysis. We do this by using customer data submitted by individuals to our organisation, such as donations or memberships, in addition to data gathered from public sources such as Companies House, Charities Commission and LinkedIn. For example, if an individual has donated to The Mighty Creatives recently, we may consider contacting them regarding forthcoming campaigns we believe they may be interested in, according to their demonstrated interests. This would also be the case if you have indicated an interest in supporting our fundraising activity in your email preferences.
By using legitimate, public resources, we can build an accurate profile of current and prospective donors, giving them greater opportunities to access our work but also streamline our communications to each of our audiences.
We use personal data, when necessary, to inform an individual as to the status of a donation or membership, such as when we send a Direct Debit instruction to an individual who has signed up or renewed as a Member via that payment method. Similarly, we will contact you if there are any changes to benefits associated with such schemes or if an interest has been expressed by an individual to modify their current benefits.
When collecting data, we track our actions and record them, ensuring that what we collect is open to scrutiny, both internally and externally. As such, if you wish to request further information on the data collected in relation to yourself or your organisation, or if you are
not happy to be profiled in any way and wish to opt out from our database, please contact us.
Access to the personal information we may hold about you
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you and request a readable copy of any personal data which we keep about you, by sending an email to inFo@themightycreatives.com.
Although we may require you to provide proof of your identity in advance, we will aim to respond to your request within 28 days and will do so free of charge. We reserve the right to charge an administrative fee when a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing and/or fundraising purposes or to update your preferences on how we can process your data at any time. You can do this using the contact details below.
Changes to the privacy policy
This privacy policy was last updated in March 2019
Any changes to our privacy policy in the future will be posted to our website and, where appropriate, through email notification.
Contact
If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy or what we do with your data, please email us at info@themightycreatives.com or write to us:
The Data Protection Officer Communications
LCB Depot
31 Rutland Street
Leicester LE1 1RE
Further guidance on your privacy rights and how to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority is available from the ICO.
